THEOSISJohn Chrysostom
Consider the unfathomable care of the Lord. Prior to the escalation of the famine, He led the just man into Egypt to spare him from the misfortune that loomed over the land of Canaan.
Genesis 47:13Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land, more especially of Egypt and Chanaan;
וְלֶ֤חֶם אֵין֙ בְּכָל־הָאָ֔רֶץ כִּֽי־כָבֵ֥ד הָרָעָ֖ב מְאֹ֑ד וַתֵּ֜לַהּ אֶ֤רֶץ מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ וְאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן מִפְּנֵ֖י הָרָעָֽב׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Acts 7:11Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Chanaan, and great tribulation: and our fathers found no food.
- Jer 9:12Who is the wise man, that may understand this, and to whom the word of the mouth of the Lord may come that he may declare this, why the land hath perished, and is burnt up like a wilderness, which none passeth through?
- Lam 4:9Teth. It was better with them that were slain by the sword, than with them that died with hunger: for these pined away being consumed for want of the fruits of the earth.
- Joel 1:10The country is destroyed, the ground hath mourned: for the corn is wasted, the wine is confounded, the oil hath languished.
- Joel 1:12The vineyard is confounded, and the fig tree hath languished: the pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the apple tree, and all the trees of the field are withered: because joy is withdrawn from the children of men.
- Gen 41:30After which shall follow other seven years of so great scarcity, that all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall consume all the land,
- Gen 41:31And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty.
- Jer 14:1The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the words of the drought.